A good start would be to read the Steven Runge's Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament . Part 3, chapters 9-14 can take you 90% of the way in terms of how word order works in Greek. I've started reading Runge's book and I have to say, this is one of the best recommendations i've gotten. So f...

We still use the title Rabbi when we speak English, that doesn't mean that every English text that uses that word was translated from Hebrew. They also use the same title in German, French, Russian, Hungarian ... In this passage, Ῥαββί is a normal form of address for a Jewish teacher, but ἀπὸ θεοῦ ...

What exactly are the different nuances? In context, τοῖς τὰς περιστερὰς πωλοῦσιν is preferred because in 2:14 John has introduced a list βόας καὶ πρόβατα καὶ περιστερὰς καὶ τοὺς κερματιστὰς καθημένους, in 2:15 he deals with all of them except for the doves, to which he turns in 2:16. Fronting somet...

It's number 1. The πωλοῦσιν is the dative participle in this case. Hello. Thanks for your reply Jason. So τοῖς goes with πωλοῦσιν because they are of the same case number and gender, and the noun sandwich construction is just something that is possible in the language? It's because participles func...

But why would there be two different words that mean exactly the same thing? Surely there is a slightly different meaning? Why wouldn't an author just use one of them as opposed to using them in different places in the same book to describe things? I can only say that this happens in Hebrew, where ...

I'm not sure that they are exactly interchangeable, but I don't know if they are different, and if they are, I don't know exactly what the difference is. There was a thread on this here: https://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=661 It's easy to do a quick search, but analyzing resu...

γεγραμμένον --> Verb: Perfect Passive Participle Nominative Singular Neuter Hi. I have a couple of questions about γεγραμμένον. How can γεγραμμένον best be translated to fully incorporate its meaning, and how can it be explained to fully understand its significance as a perfect passive participle? ...